In South Korea, not only are many Catholic priests fans of dog meat, they often encourage their congregation to go out and eat dog meat and even sell dog meat at their church bazaars. Fed up with their hypocrisy, members of several animal rights groups in South Korea protested on August 18, 2014 when […]
Indictment recommended in South Korean dog meat case
Could bring precedent-setting prosecution BUSAN, South Korea––A potentially precedent-setting criminal prosecution of a South Korean dog meat vendor may be imminent, Korea Alliance for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals translator April Kim posted to the Asia Animal Protection Network on April 13, 2014. On February 9, 2014, Kim recounted, translating from KAPCA statements originally […]
Police respond––slowly––to complaints about dog slaughter in South Korea
Police presence temporarily interrupted business BUSAN, South Korea––Attempting to invoke lightly enforced existing laws to try to close the Gupo and Nopodong live markets in Busan, South Korea, the Korea Alliance for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was on February 9, 2014 disappointed by a purportedly slow […]